Tracks by Robyn Davidson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Series: Anniversary Edition
A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' S ...Show more
A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Series: Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empireWithin minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to hel ...Show more
Craft For A Dry Lake by Kim Mahood
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: good
Kim Mahood takes us back to the Australian Outback of her youth. In this award-winning memoir, she explores her relationship with her father, her art and the places where she grew up, examining how a settler population relates to history and to land.
Barefoot Through the Bindies: Growing Up in North Queensland in the Early 1900s by Marion Houldsworth
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Growing up in North Queensland in the early 1900's. Australian children of this new millennium takes for granted a lofestyle that includes videos, T.V. Soapies, DVDs, computer games. But the children of a hundred years ago, the Federation era, had a different set of expectations. They walked barefoot th ...Show more
King of the Air: The Turbulent Life of Charles Kingsford Smith by Ann Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Charles Kingsford Smith was the most commanding flyer of the golden age of aviation. In three short years, he broke records with his astounding and daring voyages- the first trans-Pacific flight from America to Australia, the first circumnavigation around the equator, the first non-stop crossing of the ...Show more
Bee Miles: Australia's famous bohemian rebel, and the untold story behind the legend by Rose Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The untold story of the uncompromising and fearless woman who captivated mid-20th century Australia with her spectacular acts of defiance. Bee Miles was famous for appearing in public in towns and cities across Australia, breaking their rules, and living, she said 'recklessly'. But she was no ordinary w ...Show more
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB) by Deborah FitzGerald
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt ...Show more
We of the Never Never by Aeneas Mrs. Gunn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
In 1902 Jeannie Gunn, a Melbourne schoolteacher, went with her new husband to live on the remote Elsey cattle station near the Roper River in the Northern Territory. Though she spent little more than a year there, her experiences in the outback and her contact with the local Aborigines impressed her dee ...Show more
An Alice Girl by Tanya Heaslip
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
For fans of Tony Tapp Coutts' A Sunburnt Childhood and Mary Groves' An Outback Life, comes Tanya Heaslip's extraordinary story of growing up with her sister and brothers in the late 1960s and early 70s on the outback cattle property just north of Alice Springs.
Paul Kelly: the Man, the Music & the Life in Between by Stuart Coupe
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Renowned music journalist Stuart Coupe examines the life of an Australian music icon - honest, revealing and a must-read for Paul Kelly fans and music lovers alike. He's been called Australia's Bob Dylan and likened to Springsteen and Neil Young, but Paul Kelly stands alone as a chronicler of his and ou ...Show more
A Fortunate Life by A B Facey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
First sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer, farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then being rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy. He survived Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, lost a son in the Second World War ...Show more
Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
It's a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives - from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan. In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed bestseller, Working Class B ...Show more